Word: accession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cambridge suggests how desirable is a good hotel or University Club located near the College grounds. At present there is, besides the Colonial Club, no institution which can accommodate visitors, and the conveniences of the Colonial Club are of course for members and friends only. Visitors who have not access to the Colonial Club must in most cases stay at a Boston hotel. It is unsatisfactory. A visit is to be sure not out of the question, but it is accomplished under difficulties; if there were good accommodations in Cambridge the number of alumni and friends of the students attracted...
...research on the part of each student, and also of excavations and explorations which are carried on under the guidance of the director. Lectures are given on general topics connected with classical archaeology, and the collection of inscriptions, vases, reliefs, and the like to which the school has access, are made the subjects of special study. Some time is given each year to excavation. In the past few years excavations have been made at Icaria, Plataea, Eretria, Sicyon and Argos; and a number of interesting discoveries have been made. The site of Icaria has been determined and a number...
...column of this issue. No better step has been taken by the University than the provision of these rooms where men may go with some hope of finding what they want and of finding it where they expect it. The libraries are comparatively small and are very easy of access; then, too, general readers are kept out by the system of loaning keys and a great deal of the confusion incident to general reading rooms is then done away with. Several copies are generally provided when books are in great demand and these copies are never taken away. These libraries...
...preserving the banks of the Charles from being made a hideous spectacle of factories, wharfs and tenement houses; as well as save them from the ravages of ruthless speculators. All we are asked to do is to sign the petitions which have been left in places of easy access-a slight effort in view of what it may help to accomplish...
...resurrect from the Congressional Documents and from other sources equally inaccessible to the ordinary reader, a few of the most famous and valuable papers written by our earlier statesmen on the subject of the tariff. These papers, as he says, "are now reprinted in the hope that more easy access to them will be of service to teachers and students of economics, and will bring to the attention of thoughtful citizens serious and sober arguments removed from the heat of contemporary discussion...